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y separately published work icon A Cartload of Clay : A Novel single work   novel  
Is part of Meredith Trilogy George Johnston , 1964 series - author (number 3 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 1971... 1971 A Cartload of Clay : A Novel
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Contents

* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Collins , 1971 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Preface, John Douglas Pringle , single work criticism (p. 5-[8])
* Contents derived from the Sydney, New South Wales,:Fontana , 1987 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Introduction : A Cartload of Clay, Garry Kinnane , single work criticism
Kinnane reviews the narrative structure and technique of the novel and the circumstances of its creation.
(p. [xvii]-xxiii)

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Works about this Work

The Australian Book to Read Next : A Cartload of Clay by George Johnston Paul Daley , 2020 single work column
— Appears in: The Guardian Australia , 6 July 2020;

'I frequently reread the Australian novels of my youth – and few more so than George Johnston’s autobiographical “Meredith Trilogy” of My Brother Jack, Clean Straw for Nothing and A Cartload of Clay.' (Introduction)

Charmain Clift and George Johnston, Hydra 1960 : The 'Lost' Photographs of James Burke Paul Genoni , Tanya Dalziell , 2014 single work criticism
— Appears in: Meanjin , vol. 73 no. 1 2014; (p. 18-37)

'In one of her many essays, Charmian Clift writes of the melancholic experience of feeling like a photograph. She has been asked to address a group of students at Wollongong High School, a school she had attended, and in preparing her speech she turns to a photograph that appears in the school's fiftieth-anniversary commemorative booklet. The photograph depicts a class from Clift's time at the school, 'formally posed with the boys lined up behind the girls and their hands resting on the girls' shoulders' ('On Turning slightly Sepia', p. 48 (see References below)), and as photographs do it evokes in Clift's memory small details that are not evidenced in the image itself: 'I can still see one of those girls arched in a perfect swallow dive, and remember precisely a collar of little pearl buttons on a blue crepe dress that another of them wore to an end-of-term dance that year'(48). The photograph also prompts Clift to consider how different her teenage circumstances were from those of the students she is to speak to, their faces shining with the confidence that faith in the goodness of the future affords. Before those faces now momentarily turned to her, she thinks of herself as the past, and wonders, 'if they realized that standing up before them I knew myself to be curling at the edges and turning slightly sepia' (51).' (Publication abstract)

Untitled Ian McFarlane , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 January 2008; (p. 16)
'Before It is Too Late' : George Johnston and the Doppler Effect John Scheckter , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada , Spring no. 5 1991; (p. 115-130)
Growing Up : Young Ladies' Trials Through the Ages Robin Lucas , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 13 January 1990; (p. 62)

— Review of A Cartload of Clay : A Novel George Johnston , 1971 single work novel ; The Delinquents Criena Rohan , 1962 single work novel ; Clean Straw for Nothing : A Novel George Johnston , 1969 single work novel
Richness and Ultimate Insight Veronica Sen , 1990 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 25 March 1990; (p. 26)

— Review of An Imaginary Life : A Novel David Malouf , 1978 single work novel ; Fabulous Nobodies Lee Tulloch , 1989 single work novel ; Clean Straw for Nothing : A Novel George Johnston , 1969 single work novel ; A Cartload of Clay : A Novel George Johnston , 1971 single work novel
Untitled Barbara Jefferis , 1971 single work review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 9 October 1971; (p. 18)

— Review of A Cartload of Clay : A Novel George Johnston , 1971 single work novel
The Mischiefs of Time Nancy Keesing , 1971 single work review
— Appears in: The Bulletin , 23 October vol. 93 no. 4778 1971; (p. 62-63)

— Review of A Cartload of Clay : A Novel George Johnston , 1971 single work novel
[Review] Summer of the Red Wolf Brian Kiernan , 1971 single work review
— Appears in: The Australian , 16 October 1971; (p. 18)

— Review of A Cartload of Clay : A Novel George Johnston , 1971 single work novel ; Summer of the Red Wolf Morris West , 1971 single work novel
Untitled J. Lleonart , 1971 single work review
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 16 October 1971; (p. 15)

— Review of A Cartload of Clay : A Novel George Johnston , 1971 single work novel
Untitled Ian McFarlane , 2008 single work column
— Appears in: The Canberra Times , 19 January 2008; (p. 16)
'Before It is Too Late' : George Johnston and the Doppler Effect John Scheckter , 1991 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian & New Zealand Studies in Canada , Spring no. 5 1991; (p. 115-130)
Biography and Fiction : George Johnston's Meredith Trilogy and Garry Kinane's Biography F. H. Mares , 1988 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , May vol. 13 no. 3 1988; (p. 357-364)
The Evolution of George Johnston's David Meredith Greer Johnson , Chris Tiffin , 1983 single work criticism
— Appears in: Australian Literary Studies , October vol. 11 no. 2 1983; (p. 162-170)
Concerning "A Cartload of Clay" Martin Johnston , 1971 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Age , 2 October 1971; (p. 11) The Advertiser , 16 October 1971; (p. 21) The Sydney Morning Herald , 25 September 1971; (p. 19) Martin Johnston : Selected Poems and Prose 1993; (p. 161-165)
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